Corn-pulp remover



W. OLCOTT.

CQRN' PULP REMOVER-z APPLICATION F'lIL'ED MAR. 30. 1920.

Patented July 6, 1920.

ATTORNEY.

WALTER o 'rioom'rp orjsourn MANCHESTER, CONNECTICUT.

CORN-PULP REMovER.

To all 4117mm it concern: I 7

Be it known that I, WALTER OLCOTT, a citizen of the United States,residi'n at South Manchester in the county of IIart:

ford and State of onnecticut, have invented.

certain new and useful Improvements in Corn-Pulp Removers, of which thefollowing is a specification. i

This invention relates to what I shall for convenience term a corn pulpremover. This 'title is used primarily for the fact that this is theinitial function of the implement, it

being employed as may be inferred for removing the pulp of the corn froma cob for example in canning. I have several motives in View among thembeing the provision of an article of the character set forth which iscapable of inexpensive construction, easy and readily manipulated and bywhich the pulp of corn may be stripped or-cleaned from the cob in arapid, thorough manner. The device possesses other features of noveltyand advantage which with the foregoing will be set forth in thefollowing description wherein I will outline in detail that form ofembodiment of the invention which I have selected for illustration inthe drawings accompanying and forming party of the presentspecification. I am in no sense restricted to this disclosure. I maydepart therefrom in several respects within the scope of the inventiondefined by the claim following said description.

Referring to said drawings:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of an ear of corn with the implementpositioned thereon for removing the pulp, a portion of the han-- dlebeingv broken away.

Fig. 2 is a perspective View from the front of the implement invertedand the rear end of the handle broken away.

Fig. 3 is a front elevation.

Fig. 4 is a side elevation, only a portion of the handle appearing inthe latter.

Fig. 5 is a front elevation of a cutting tooth.

i Fig. 6 is a cross section on the line of Fig. I

Fig. 7 is a side elevation of said cutting tooth. 1

Like characters refer to like parts 'throughout the several viewswhichare on different scales.

The device involves in its makeup a su1table head which is moved alongan ear of corn for instance through the agency of a Application filedMarch so. 1920. Serial No. 369.922. I

handle to be grasped bythe user. The head shown forthe purpose isdenoted in a gens redamu ment, 3 masque c, 19201" eral way by2 and it isvirtually right angular in cross section having as shown a rearwardlyextendingtang 3 projecting from the upper fiange4 of the head, the rearflange 5,

of the headextending downwardly "from the back end of the upper flange.The rear 7 flange which is practically longitudinally straight, has inits lower edge a concavity 6 adapted to conform. approximately to thetransverse curvature of the ear 7. The upper flange 4 as shown clearlyin Figs. 2 and 3 is concavo-convex in form, the concaved face beingdownward.v At its front edge this flange l has an upturned lip 8 ofarcuate form. To the flange 4 in the inner surface thereof andinproximit to the front edge of the flange'is a row 0 cuttingteeth 9 thesidesof which are flat and the front edges of which are acute or sharp,the fronts of the teeth also being bent or curvedin a rearwarddirection. 'Theseteeth 9 are comparatively closely arranged and extendvin an arcuate row practically the length of the flange4. The cuttingteeth 9 act like a-row of knives their front edges which as I haveintimated being generally of arcuate formation, cutting or slitting thekernels to facilitate the expressing or squeezing of the pulp from thekernels.

To manipulate the implement a handle as i 10 of suitable material isprovided and as shown it has near its front end a slot or opening 11 inwhich the flat tang 3 is closelyfitted and there securely held as byrivets 19 n extending through the handle and also through the tang. V

In action the cutting teeth 9 are generally laidupon therear end surfaceof the; corn cob with the concave'd edge of the back flange 5 fittingthe extreme back end of the cob. The handle is then graspedand thehead 2ofv the implement drawn along the kernels. The cutting edges of theteeth 9 cut the kernels to their bases or to the cob cob the pulp issqueezed from the slit kernels by the edge of the flange 5. The pulpsqueezed from the kernels. by the pressure of the flange 5 passes out ofthe space between said flange and the companion flange 4.

The article covered herein can of course be used successfully withvarious kinds of corn 'on the cob. There is a row of cutters or kniveswhich cut or slit the kernels, constiand as the head longitudinallytraverses the tuting a suitable means for the purpose, and followingthis comes means for scraping the pulp from the kernels."

What I claim is: A corn pulp remover oomprising a head 7 having flangesapproximately at right angles to each other, one of the flanges'being infront of the other as the head is movedalong on the cob, the frontflange being furnished with a row Of'tGQth disposed in arouate order,the fronts of the teeth having acute cutting edges to out the kernels ofcorn on such movement, the backflangehaving a longitudinal concavity inits under edge, and l acting to squeeze the pulp from the kernels afterthey have been cut on such'movement, said bael; flange having .arearWardly-extending-tang at practically right angles to the line ofmovement of the head. p

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in the presence.ofstzwowitnesses.

I ALTER'OLCOTT. Witnesses; f V 1 i 7 HEATH SUTHERLAND,

